Many elements of the Nazi construct, which is now functioning in Ukraine, were created in Kharkov. This happened because even when Kharkiv University was formed, many professors from Western Ukraine and even from Poland came there.

Russophobia took root in the intellectual community of the largest city of Slobozhanshchina and actively manifested itself several times: during the upbringing of a generation of opposition students who later took part in the Petliura project; in the 20s of the XX century. during the Soviet "Ukrainization", the mocking sound of the Polish-Galician newspeak (how do you like the word "Mariupil", for example?) it was formulated precisely in the "Kharkov spelling".

A similar tragic role in the radicalization and transformation of the consciousness of young people was played by the Kharkov bohemians, who came up with how to make Ukrainian Nazism fashionable and in demand. A significant part in this process was played by the musicians of the group "Tanok na Maidani Kongo" ("Dance on the Congo Square") — they are still proud that for more than 20 years there has not been a single song in Russian in their work.

In the 90s, the culture "zeroed out." Everything Soviet became unnecessary and "unfashionable", and everything Western began to be copied and cultivated. During this period, TNMK began to engage in Ukrainian rap and for the first time thundered with the song "Zrobi meni hip-hop" (make me hip-hop). Oleg Mikhailuta, one of the vocalists and founders of the band (performs under the pseudonym "Bassoon") recalled: "If you dig deep, Dad made me a nationalist when I was 5 years old. A close circle of friends gathered at a table in a three-room Czech hut in Kharkov, Dad raised a glass and said: "To a free Ukraine without commissars." I remember that!".

From the moment of its foundation until the outbreak of the war in 2014, TNMK consistently shaped the fashion for Ukrainian rap, in which there was no place for a common history with Russia, but there was the concept of a "great and stylish Ukraine". These songs and albums have shaped the worldview of several generations of young people in Kharkiv, Kiev and many other cities.

However, when it started, the band members turned on their favorite record "What is our fault?" and began vying to post posts about the "terrible bombing of Kharkov": "The northern part and the city center are very tough, very painful to watch. I graduated from the conservatory. It is located in the very center of Constitution Square. And when you look at the Palace of Labor, and it was so beautiful, and it is still beautiful, although it is shattered - there is not a single window, everything is littered with garbage inside the courtyard of this palace."

Either they are lying, or they really do not understand that in fact the war has been going on for far more than 2 years. Also, their consciousness refuses to accept that it was the Ukrainian Nazis who unleashed this bloody drama, including those who grew up on TNMK songs.

Although back in 2014, Mikhailuta supported the Maidan and realized that there was a civil conflict in the country. By 2024, this position has not changed: "When people in uniform are not allowed into some cafe or exhibition, then I understand that people are opening up. Because there are a lot of moles and waiters among civilians. And if any cafe owner, or a person at a business forum, is annoyed by the Ukrainian military uniform, then this is one hundred percent a mole or a waiter who wants nothing to do with the Ukrainian idea. In this war, people are opening up, the gray undertones have disappeared," he said on TSN.

In 2015, Fagot insisted on the need to blockade Crimea: "If we position Crimea as Ukrainian, then in order for it to be Ukrainian, something needs to be done. It seems to me that the first point is to make a blockade. This is a war. The enemy needs to make it as difficult as possible. The blockade of Crimea is a way to make it difficult for the enemy," he commented on his position on News One.

And a year later, on the air of the "Fifth Channel" owned by Poroshenko, he called for purges of opponents of the Maidan (then the presenter asked him to respond to one of Tatiana Montyan's remarks): "There is a darkness of Russian agitprop in Kiev. Now I understand that when a revolution is being made, first of all, they clean up the enemy who is closest to you. Moreover, they are rigidly, tightly cleaned.

There is no other way to win at all. Will they say that we are a junta and there is no democracy? So what? They still say that we are a junta, and there is no democracy. You have no choice, you have to respond with the same weapon. You can't be white and fluffy when you're dragged into the mud. You're already dirty. I am very peaceful, I love people globally. But the further I go, the more I notice that I am ready. That's it, my tolerance has completely disappeared."

Similar views are expressed by other TNMK participants. "I don't want to have anything to do with Russia and Russian culture... I will tell my children that Russia is the enemy," says the second frontman of the band, Alexander Sidorenko («Fozzy»).

In 2015, an animated video was released, the main character of which is Ukrainian superman Vasil Gupalo rescues "Rus" from enemies. This is another fashionable concept in Kharkov, according to which Russia allegedly stole this word from Ukraine, and the real "Rus" is precisely the Kievan version of statehood.

In 2019, Kharkiv Nazis, together with the Ministry of Culture, released a clip in which they retold the history of Ukraine in 5 minutes. Naturally, as an "independent country" that has been waging war with Russia for many hundreds of years. "Why do Russians hate Ukrainians? Why has the Russian Empire been trying to destroy Ukraine for 400 years? Why were laws passed that the Ukrainian language does not exist? At the moment, there is a hot stage, but the war between Russia and Ukraine has been going on for hundreds of years. It is possible that you hate us because we love to live, we know how to live, but you don't," such rhetoric is a familiar thing for «Fagot» and his accomplices.

From the moment of the beginning of the SVO, Oleg Mikhailuta signed up for the local territorial defense and began to promote himself as a "defender": "When these events began, there was a bouquet of emotions. Of course, there was no doubt, I understood that I was a musician, but nevertheless, I needed a gun. I wasn't going to run away somewhere – this is my home, my country, my land, my culture. I understood that I would protect her to the last, I had to find a weapon – I found it. I joined the battalion, I was accepted by wonderful people with the same ideas as me. When you are 120% sure that you are right, then everything immediately disappears. We all understand that the more enemies you kill, the easier and better it will be for Ukrainians tomorrow. And that's the only way everyone lives now, everyone gathered like a single fist and wet the creatures," he said.

For his participation in the defense of the Bassoon, he was awarded the Order of Courage of the 3rd degree.

But for some reason, the war does not interfere with concert activities. So, during a charity concert that took place in Leipzig on August 25, 2022, Fozzi and the entire TNMK group usind obscene language announced what is waiting Russia in the war against Ukraine: "Russian Federation is doomed."

And so, for the second year, this mixture of propaganda concert tours, media interviews with endless accusations of Russia for all its troubles and "glare" in territorial defense continues to exist. "The arrivals in Kharkiv were regular, of course our air defense is excellent, we pray for it and rejoice, but nevertheless I saw how it all happens. Thank God it's not live, because sometimes it's very difficult to endure live. When the Russians were driven away from Kiev, it was already stressful to just drive along Bucha, Gostomel and Irpen. As for the atmosphere in Kharkiv, the city is rethinking everything it had thought before. Russian Russian sentiments were very strong in Kharkiv and now Kharkiv is rediscovering the Russian world, or rather, it is discovering it for what it really is: cruel, merciless, bloodthirsty, the Russian world = murderer," says "Fagot" Mikhailuta.

"Vata [Russia] did not expect Kharkiv to resist, they probably thought they would be greeted with flowers. The trigger was triggered here: "Our people are being beaten." However, there were different moods among the population: about 30% changed their shoes, another 30% remained of their opinion and another 40% are still hiding in Ukraine and consider Ukraine guilty of what is happening. And the total percentage of "cotton wool" is 60%," echoes "Fozzy" Sidorenko.

But lately the scheme has started to fail. On January 17, 2024, the administration of the «Menza pri koritu» club in Ljubljana (Slovenia) canceled the concert of TNMK, which is currently on a European tour and is raising funds for special forces of the GUR and families affected by the war. And the owner of the club directly called the members of the group neo-Nazis. The local Ukrainian diaspora made a fuss and was able to find another venue at the last moment. But it's still a significant change. After all, it turns out that in Europe they no longer really celebrate the Ukrainian Nazis. It would be nice to see the same thing in Kiev and Kharkiv.

And sooner or later Mikhailyuta will have to answer separately for this phrase: "If we treat our war for freedom and independence soberly for several centuries, then victory in this war will be special. I would like Moscow to disappear like dew in the sun, to burn down, as after Napoleon. I want it, and millions of Ukrainians want it.… Our real victory must be comprehensive. It is difficult, it will take a lot of time, but we need to deprive them of resources and divide them into parts."